This school year has been one of many great changes for Park University. We have new clubs and organizations, different amenities offered for residential students and much more. But one that is causing big waves is the school’s new website design.
I have been at this school for more than four years now and never really gave a thought to the web page until I saw how unhelpful and distracted the new changes seems to be.
The graphics have been amped up on the home page, but there are links that made things simple before that have been replaced with bad links or connections that seem to take us to the old and outdated web pages.
The People at Park directory seems to be non-existent and when you finally find it the search bar reveals contacts to be missing or wrong.
I know there is a big move, not just at Park University but nation-wide, for faster technology and updated systems. But at what cost to simplicity and usability do we sacrifice to keep up with the Jones?
There is an overall notion campuswide about the new web page and design: It sucks.
It seems students would rather have the devil they know than the angel they don’t when it comes to the university’s website. If this is any indication for the people who work on and designed the newer page then they sorely missed the mark on this one.
Students need accessibility, simplicity and organization that follows a rational thought process. But what we seem to be getting is confusion, stress and lack of the three earlier stated concepts.
With our school relying so heavily on web communication and classrooms it is unacceptable to be given such a weak and misguided website. So please, for the sake of the proficiency and knowledge, get it together.
